Jon Gertner
Jon Gertner is a journalist based in New Jersey. He is author of The Idea Factory, about innovation at Bell Labs, and The Ice at the End of the World, about Greenland’s melting ice sheet.
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Science & Society
What made the last century’s great innovations possible?
Science paved the way for antibiotics, lasers, computers and COVID-19 vaccines, but science alone was not enough.